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In Reply to: Itīs a very good film, bordering on excellence. And... posted by orejones on February 4, 2005 at 02:38:16:
Upon first viewing I thought she was very good, but subsequently I find her performance to be derivative, calculating, and contrived. Nothing she does seems natural, only calculated for effect. Sure she's supposed to be a nut, but fo me it doesn't work. She uses speech patterns stolen from some TV actress I've seen, name unknown, from some mid-period Seinfeld shows and someone else, or the same actress, from another show. Took me a while to figure out where I'd seen that kind of acting before.
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Though the disingenuousness it lends her character in that film kind of works. I guess. And I can see how it would have an apposite effect in American Beauty as well.
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Bening - her every move comes across as unnatural and calculating. Not a good actress, imo. Next to Spacey's superb performance she comes off as an amateur. The two young girls in the film are better by far.
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